The Fake Geek Girl

[Psychosplodge]

[dark messenger]

Ok first off thanks TDA, your reply made me smile.

Second - Psychosplodge that is an awesome sight, that gun firing underwater like that lol. Although I'm not sure I understand the reference...

Third - is there a forum here for discussion of Magic the Gathering? Coz if there is, I can't find it (sorry to be a pain)

[Psychosplodge]

kinda equivalent to /thread lol

[Deadlift]

What the f* cks a meme ?

[Psychosplodge]

Things like lolcats and the keep calm posters etc.
It's like a trend that spreads like a virus.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

dark, I just bumped the thread that I made.

[Gotthammer]

My only answers to this are; since when was being labelled something a good thing?

We had a thread about labels a while back [URL="http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/showthread.php?26145-Labels"]where I answered just that question[/URL].

[MaltonNecromancer]

What the f* cks a meme ?

A concept posited by Richard Dawkins, that some ideas function in an identical way to viruses - that they spread through various vectors, that they evolve over time, etc... It's actually quite fascinating. He uses it to do things like explore religion, culture, etc...

When people normally talk about memes online however, what they are usually referring to is what used to be called an Internet Meme, normally of a humourous nature. Early internet memes include Numa Numa, lolcats, the Star Wars Kid, Advice Dog, and so on. Other internet memes tend to be of shocking images, either of a repulsively pornographic nature (involving things like scatophilia, etc...) or else grotesque, real-life violence.

For more information, I recommend KnowYourMeme.

Oh, and if you're going meme-browsing, I give you some free advice. Don't research The Power Five (the five most famous "shock" images) as they're all pretty horrible, and most especially, no matter what anyone does, never, ever, EVER, EVER look up the Pain Series. It's a series of photographs of gore, including many of absolutely horrific real-life violence, and it's just horrible. Made me feel bad for quite a while.

[DarkLink]

That is, it is a meme that speaks to all that is base and low unless there really are a bunch of girls out there who are sexual predators pretending to be geeks in order to increase their number of conquests.

I don't know what's more dangerous, cosplay assassins or judging people based on their appearance over their character. I'm gonna go with the latter, since that one is actually real.

What the f* cks a meme ?

A unit of cultural information. Not that that will help you understand what it is, but once you do understand what it is you realize it's a very succinct definition.

[Deadlift]

Thanks for the info on meme's guys. Whilst a little wiser I took Maltons advice and didn't investigate any further. Some of what you described sounds unpleasant in the extreme, not my thing at all. keep it PG and I am happy.